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Skocpol was appointed dean two decades later after anthropologist Peter T. Ellison resigned from the position over disagreements with then-University President Lawrence H. Summers...
...January of last year.After Summers’ January 2005 remarks about the innate differences between men and women in the sciences, Skocpol emerged as one of his most outspoken critics. Five months later, Skocpol was named to the top post at the graduate school, replacing anthropologist Peter T. Ellison, who resigned after persistent disputes with Summers. Skocpol is only the second woman to lead GSAS. Interim University President Derek C. Bok praised Skocpol’s work over the past two years.“Again and again, she has gone beyond the strict requirements of her position to make...
...list of contenders for the deanship considered by Interim President Derek C. Bok last spring included former Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Dean Peter T. Ellison, Government Department Chair Nancy L. Rosenblum, and current GSAS Dean Theda Skocpol, according to two individuals close to the search process. Faust was also seriously considered by Bok at the time, the individuals said...
Wall's solution to that problem seems to be to choose the most enigmatic moment from the story, a moment when it doesn't quite tell its story. So his picture After "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison, the Prologue is a bristling construction based on the opening pages of Ellison's novel, in which the narrator, a black man, speaks to us from a room hung with hundreds of lightbulbs. He keeps those turned on as an antidote to the "invisibility" forced on him every day by the white society that is outside his door. But the man turns...
Murray had previously planned to lead a similar institute at Harvard that would have been funded by a $115 million donation from Lawrence J. Ellison, the CEO of Oracle Corporation. But Ellison backed out on his pledge last summer due to what he said was his lack of faith in the University after President Lawrence H. Summers’ resignation...